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Oracle Linux

Optimize for Today, Prepare for Tomorrow

Operating systems, containers, and virtualization are the fundamental building blocks of modern IT infrastructure. Oracle combines them all into one integrated offering: Oracle Linux. Operating on your choice of hardware—in your data center or in the cloud—Oracle Linux provides the reliability, scalability, security, and performance for demanding enterprise workloads.

Benefit from Oracle’s enterprise experience

Optimize

Tried, tested, and tuned for enterprise workloads, Oracle Linux is used by Oracle developers worldwide and is backed by support services from experts who understand the entire Oracle technology stack. Take advantage of Oracle Linux templates to deploy enterprise applications faster. Utilize preconfigured and validated configurations to shorten the time to deployment for critical workloads.

Apply live patches

Secure

Oracle Linux is the only Linux distribution that supports live, non-disruptive patching, both in the kernel space and in the user space. That means you can immediately apply security patches without impacting your production environment—and without rebooting. To date, more than one million patches have been delivered in this fashion through Ksplice.

Standardize on an operating system built for cloud

Prepare

Optimized for hybrid cloud environments, Oracle Linux is used in both enterprise installations and cloud workloads running billions of transactions per day. Cloud customers use Oracle Linux to support millions of customers in over 195 countries worldwide. With extensive configuration choices, Oracle Linux helps you simplify and modernize your business.

Open, Cloud-Ready Infrastructure

Used throughout Oracle Cloud and Oracle engineered systems, Oracle Linux is a proven operating system that is available in the cloud, on premises, or as an embedded system.

Oracle Linux On Premises

Simplify, modernize, and economize your infrastructure with the industry’s most complete and cost-effective Linux distribution. Leverage the industry’s most flexible support options to meet your business needs.

Oracle Linux Embedded

Work with Oracle to design a solution that makes sense for your business. Leading solution providers standardize on Oracle Linux for its performance, scalability, reliability, and security for business-critical applications.

By moving their entire hosted cloud services environment to Oracle Linux and Oracle VM, IT Convergence automated and drastically improved deployment times, uptime, and SLAs for customers while reducing support costs.

Oracle Linux Premier Support

All the benefits of Oracle Linux Basic Support along with a variety of additional support services such as premier backports, zero-downtime kernel updates with Ksplice, Oracle Container Services for use with Kubernetes and Gluster Storage.

Oracle Linux Extended Support

Extended Support for Oracle Linux 5 systems that are covered by Premier Support agreements, including program updates, fixes, security alerts, and assistance with service requests (until June 26, 2020).